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Multiple readings The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Shared emphasis critical.computer Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Accelerating Compute & infrastructure Development 12h ago
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Chestnut Grove data center community fight

The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Sam Cole
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“An endangered American Chestnut grove is under threat from a proposed data center. West Virginia governor wants to simply move the trees, says they will die anyway. Good stuff: www.404media.co/west-virgini...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“After this backlash, Nscale is saying they've never planned to "bulldoze" the trees, as viral social media posts claimed. But they and the governor's office do plan to move them, which experts say will almost definitely kill them within a few years. www.404…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“In addition to being overwhelmingly unpopular with the communities where they’re built, and despite the trillions of dollars dumped into their development, data center projects and the industry at large around the world are starting to flounder.”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Accelerating Compute & infrastructure Resource 9h ago
critical computer website resource

critical.computer

3 directory members surfaced this signal.

3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Dwayne Monroe
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
Shared emphasis

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Reminder: critical.computer#about > This is therefore a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it (as much as possible) as a central topic — and absolutely no using it.”

Primary source critical.computer ↗
New AI research Signal 6h ago

Assistant / Associate / Full Professor of Computer Sciences - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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David Mimno Lucy Li

“We are hiring!! "Artificial intelligence, broadly construed. This includes embodied AI and robotics, machine learning and the systems that support it, and AI developed for problems in science, engineering, medicine, education, and society." jobs.wisc.edu/jo…”

Primary source jobs.wisc.edu ↗
New Compute & infrastructure Signal 19h ago

Build Africa's Shared Compute & AI Infrastructure

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo

“I’ve made it to Abuja and look forward to participating in the Build 2026 conference! buildconference.ai Tomorrow, I’ll speak on a panel session reflecting on Nigeria’s National AI Strategy and exchanging insights on what it’ll take to operationalize effect…”

Primary source buildconference.ai ↗
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3 experts · 12 posts · 1d ago
Ben Recht Pwnallthethings tweety fish
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
tweety fish: I wonder if it's a, like, "well, if that doesn't happen everything's fucked anyhow, it's all correlated" thing
tweety fish: right the latter has always been my assumption about where we're headed, especially with things like "oh yeah google released a competitive frontier model, nothing was stopping them, they just hadn…
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